A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory and Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text Book for the the Highest Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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... Of tham can nevir be quyte ! ' : 23 As a specimen of one of his minor poems
take the following , containing much wholesome advice :NO TREASURE
WITHOUT GLADNESS 1 . Be merry , man ! 1 When Qe has the force of wo . 9
Taken leave .
... Of tham can nevir be quyte ! ' : 23 As a specimen of one of his minor poems
take the following , containing much wholesome advice :NO TREASURE
WITHOUT GLADNESS 1 . Be merry , man ! 1 When Qe has the force of wo . 9
Taken leave .
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And if ye cannot elsewhere , then may you leave him here . But only one thing I ...
And therewith she kissed him , and blessed him ; turned her back and wept , and
went her way , leaving the child weeping as fast . Sir Thomas was twice ...
And if ye cannot elsewhere , then may you leave him here . But only one thing I ...
And therewith she kissed him , and blessed him ; turned her back and wept , and
went her way , leaving the child weeping as fast . Sir Thomas was twice ...
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I pray you to make some good onsearch what my poor neighbours have lost , and
bid them take no thought therefore ; for , if I should not leave myself a spoon ,
there shall no poor neighbour of mine bear no loss by my chance , happened in ...
I pray you to make some good onsearch what my poor neighbours have lost , and
bid them take no thought therefore ; for , if I should not leave myself a spoon ,
there shall no poor neighbour of mine bear no loss by my chance , happened in ...
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Disdain me not without desert , Nor leave me not so suddenly ; Since well ye wot
that in my lieart I mean ye uot but honestly . Refuse me not without cause why ,
Nor think me not to be unjust ; Since that by lot of fantasy , This careful knot needs
...
Disdain me not without desert , Nor leave me not so suddenly ; Since well ye wot
that in my lieart I mean ye uot but honestly . Refuse me not without cause why ,
Nor think me not to be unjust ; Since that by lot of fantasy , This careful knot needs
...
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And here , I call not Honesty that , men commonly call Honesty , as reputation for
riches , for authority , or some like thing ; but that Honesty , that I dare well say
your grandfather had rather left to me than all the lands he did leave me ; that
was ...
And here , I call not Honesty that , men commonly call Honesty , as reputation for
riches , for authority , or some like thing ; but that Honesty , that I dare well say
your grandfather had rather left to me than all the lands he did leave me ; that
was ...
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Page 600 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Page 599 - Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined ; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
Page 640 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 365 - If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Page 215 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 749 - And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we. He soon replied, I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she, my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done. • I am a linen-draper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go.
Page 598 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds ; Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 751 - Away went hat and wig; He little dreamt, when he set out, Of running such a rig. The wind did blow, the cloak did fly Like streamer long and gay, Till, loop and button failing both, At last it flew away . Then might all people well discern The bottles he had slung; A bottle swinging at each side, As hath been said or sung. The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul cried out, "Well done!
Page 711 - And decks the lily fair in flowery pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.
Page 602 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow ; As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe; And, redolent of Joy and Youth, To breathe a second Spring!
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| Title | A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory and Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms ... Cleveland's series Series, Charles Dexter Cleveland |
| Author | Charles Dexter Cleveland |
| Publisher | A.S. Barnes & Company, 1872 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 776 pages |
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